What Can You Do With Property Nobody Wants? Vest: Opportunities for Debtors and Pitfalls for Secured Creditors

Deadline to Register: February 16,
2017

Karl Johnson will discuss the recent trend of vesting
real property in a mortgagee as part of a Chapter 13 Plan under 11 USC Section
1322(b)(9) over a secured creditor’s objection and examine emerging
case law.

Karl Johnson - Karl Johnson is an attorney with Hellmuth
& Johnson PLLC. His legal practice focuses primarily on bankruptcy
law. He also has experience in general commercial litigation, often involving
creditor-debtor disputes and collection efforts. Karl represents a wide range of
clients including individuals facing financial difficulty, small business
owners, large businesses, and institutional creditors. He brings a broad
range of experience to his practice thanks to his two years clerking for the
Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Minnesota and almost three years as
staff counsel to the Standing Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Trustee for the District of
Minnesota. Karl has appeared as attorney of record in thousands of bankruptcy
cases and has successfully defended two appeals, one before the United States
District Court for the District of
Minnesota, and the other
before the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit. A magna cum laude graduate of
the University of Minnesota Law School, Karl also has a M.A. in English Language
and Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned his B.A. in
Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY.

Join the section for 1/2 price through February and attend this event
for free!

MSBA members who are not members of
the Bankruptcy Section can join the section for $23.50 (instead of the
full annual dues price of $47) and attend this CLE for FREE. Contact Tram Nguyen | 612.278.6316 to
take advantage of this offer!

If you need reasonable accommodations to participate in this event please
notify Tram Nguyen at tnguyen@mnbar.org
or 612-278-6316. Please provide notification at least 72 hours prior to the
meeting to allow sufficient time to make arrangements for accommodations at this
meeting.